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Javaman

(62,394 posts)
Mon Jul 31, 2017, 11:53 AM Jul 2017

I read the instructions...

**this post contains spoilers from last nights game of thrones***

There is a moment in last nights Game of Thrones, where one of the characters is asked how he cured another character of a horrible disease after so many other "more learned men failed". His response was, "I read the instructions and followed the procedure".

And that got me thinking about the orange menace.

The United States of American has instructions; it's the U.S. Constitution.

It's well known that tRump doesn't read, is incurious and cares nothing for details. He wants sound bites and catchy sayings.

But one would think, "hey, I'm running for president, perhaps I should actually read this thing called the Constitution and find out what it's all about". But alas, he cares nothing for it as does those whom he has surrounded himself.

They think they can "reinvent government" by purposely violating the Constitution.

It's a long time joke among men about not reading the instructions when putting something together, especially that kids toy right before Christmas or that bicycle or that shelf from Ikea.

But when we have extra parts left over, we grudgingly go to the instructions to figure out how we fucked up. (but we don't tell anyone LOL)

tRump acts as if there never were instructions, or he purposely burned them exclaiming, "INSTRUCTIONS ARE FOR LOSERS!" then leaves the room, frustrated and a bicycle half finished on the floor for someone else to complete.

We are dealing with an uncaring spoiled fool whose incurious mind cares not for consequences because of his inability at critical thought. Cause and effect seem to have no bearing what so ever upon anything he tweets or says.

It's as if he speaks in a stream of unconsciousness.

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